bryanwheat
DSM Wiseman
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- Aug 16, 2004
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Columbia,
Missouri
I am looking for a little information on boat trailers. I bought an 88 bayliner capri 21 foot boat for a very cheap price but the trailer that it came on is for some different type of boat. The step on the back is at head height and the back of the boat is about a foot taller than my head. It is a decent sized boat, but real big. Because the boat sits so high on the trailer the thing is dangerously top heavy. I lost one of the tires in a ditch and it almost went over. Luck for me it didn't. It also has slightly more weight behind the wheels than it does in front of the wheels so there is no load on the tongue at all. You actually have to push the tongue down to hook it up. If you don't put blocks under the end of the trailer it will literally flip over backwards. This trailer also has rubber rollers on the bottom as where most fiberglass boats don't have that.
I am going to try any find a more correct trailer for it before i even attempt to take it to the river. I am basically wanting to know if there is like a certain type of trailer that is for say a 21 foot bowrider style boat that is x feet wide, or is the trailer completely custom to the boat.
I am going to try any find a more correct trailer for it before i even attempt to take it to the river. I am basically wanting to know if there is like a certain type of trailer that is for say a 21 foot bowrider style boat that is x feet wide, or is the trailer completely custom to the boat.